Tales of the Eeveelutions

The outcome

                             Chapter 5

Queen Levy sat down by the moss covered rock and watched as the battle between her sister and Gabriel continued. It mainly consisted of the two combatants hitting each other with tackles, head butts swatting each other with their paws, and kicking with their back legs whenever possible.
The battle continued for several minutes and to everyone's surprise, Gabriel held the upper hand. At home with his family, Gabriel was trained hard in endurance, strength and stamina almost every day. Jayce wanted his children able to defend themselves if the time called for it and never let his children have it easy during training sessions.
Princess Blade felt some of her confidence of ending this battle quickly begin to fade as she realized, she would need to use her more powerful grass type attacks.
"Okay boy, you asked for this. If you had just gone down easy, I wouldn't be using these attack." She said as she began to prepare to use razor leaf.
Gabriel stood there unsure what move she would use next until she jumped up and sharp leaves rain down on him cutting into his fur and into his skin. Gabriel screamed in pain but still stood up even after the attack, but was hit again by another razor leaf. This time it took more out of him than before as he fell to the ground.
"Give up Gabriel, your obviously not a warrior. You don't deserve to be a leafeon!" Said the princess
Gabriel slowly stood up and faced her, showing that he wasn't ready to give up. His wounds bothered him a little but not enough to keep him down for good. He charged towards her using quick attack and watching her as she side stepped to move out of the way of the attack he jumped up and as he started passing her, he used swift to hit her up close knocking her back a few steps as he landed on his back and rolled to a stop before getting back up.
He did a little damage to the princess who became angry with the fact she was hit by him. She glared at him and than smiled standing up at her full height and used giga drain on Gabriel draining his energy to heal some of her wounds. She laughed as he stumbled some from his energy being taken from him, than she used one of her powerful attacks called leaf blade, hitting Gabriel several times before causing him to fall to the ground in a lot of pain and exhaustion. She was feeling confident that victory was going to be hers.
Trace could only look on as his brother was starting to lose what seemed like a balanced fight from both fighters. Though Gabriel and Princess Blade were the same age and they were both from royal bloodlines, it seemed as if the princess held the upper hand with her evolved form. This made Trace wonder could his brother have had any chance of winning at all?
"Come on Gabriel! You need to win this so stand up!" Trace shouted at his brother who slowly turned to make eye contact with him. Gabriel looked like he was ready to give up by the look in his eyes, but Trace wouldn't allow it. "Get up, and don't you ever give up."
Gabriel feeling some of his confidence return slowly stood up and locked eyes with Princess Blade who looked at him. Gabriel smirked and felt a tingling sensation run though his body and suddenly he started glowing. In the next few seconds Gabriel evolved from a eevee to a leafeon and the group around in gasped and whispered to each other about the new leafeon. Princess Blade only looked on with a shocked expression on her face.
"You evolved? No!" She said angrily and used leaf blade again but it missed as Gabriel used dodged to one side to avoid her move and he used his new move razor leaf to hit her on the side knocking the wind out of her and making her stumble a bit.
"How is he so strong? He just now evolved, he can't be this strong already." She said.
He was very quick and nimble constantly moving and jumping around his opponent making Blade very angry that her attacks were missing or barely hitting him. She didn't realize that he was using a strategy to wear her down since she was the stronger leafeon of the two of them.
She finally had enough of him moving around making her yell and charge at Gabriel in a fit of rage and as she tried to jump on him trying to pin him to the ground, he used razor leaf again aiming for Blade's mid section and making her fall to the ground in pain. She tried standing up but was too worn out from using her leaf blade several times. She underestimated Gabriel and she knew this match was lost.
"Okay. I give up. You win." She said looking at him, shame began to consume her for several reasons as she stood up and walked into the group her ears lowered.
Queen Levy frowned at the sight of how sad her sister was, but knew this was something she would have to deal with later. She turned her attention to Gabriel who was having a small celebration with his family and letting them admire his new form.
"Gabriel please step forward." She said with a firm tone.
He did as he was told and stood in front of the queen who seemed to look him over some. Did she just check him out? The thought was immediately shoved from Gabriel's mind as he awaited her speech.
"Gabriel, congratulations you are now a leafeon. I hope that you make your family proud of the day you became one and that you will dedicate your life to my leafeons and to nature as well." She said smiling.
"I will do my best your majesty. For the kingdom of the leafeons and for nature." He said bowing to her, feeling his heart racing in his chest from the excitement.
"Very good. Now we shall return to the castle and all of us have a celebration in our new leafeon royal trainee member." Said Queen Levy as they began their way back to the castle.

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Trace was in his room and grooming his fur the best he could. He poured a gel he was given by his mother to put in his fur to make it sleek and shine during the celebration for Gabriel. That thought made Trace smile and he started to think about all that took place the past few days and how quickly it all seemed to have happened.
All along Queen Levy was looking for a outsider eevee to evolve into a leafeon and be the symbol of friendship between the alliance and the leafeon kingdom.
It amazed Trace how much he had learned, but didn't really surprise him either. The leafeons were going to be a valuable ally in the future for the alliance and hopefully this time around the alliance would remain strong.
When he was finished preparing, he walked out of his room and two leafeon guards waited for him. After they bowed to him, he nodded his head and began to walk in the direction of room where the party was taking place.
As he entered the room his eyes grew wide with excitement at the beautiful placement of the flowers and many different decorations that allowed for natural light and stones that held a light source in them with designs of leafeons and eevees on them making them look like jack-o-lanterns. At the center stage of this all, was a wood carving of a statue of Gabriel standing tall and proud. The details were so professionally done that it looked like the statue would come alive at any moment!
He was amazed at how magnificent everything looked and smelled, along with the beautiful music being played by a leafeon band. There were already many guests in the room, some off to the sides talking while others danced.
The Leafeon females wore dresses that seemed to flow like trees in the wind whenever they made any movements, while the males wore different suits that showed their statuses to the gathering. Trace looked for his family and saw Tara with a group of female eevees who seemed to giggle about whatever they were talking about.
Eventually he spotted his mom and dad who were with Princess Blade who had a few maidens as always behind her but they wore dress like uniforms which made the maidens look even more beautiful for some reason. The three of them looked to be in deep discussion together about something important. Princess Blade noticed Trace staring and nodded towards him which made his parents turn around and motion for him to come over which he did a bit quickly.
"Trace are you enjoying everything so far?" Asked his mother
"Yes mother I am, everything seems so wonderful here." He said smiling warmly.
Princess Blade stepped forward and looked at Trace. "I want to give my deepest apologies to you personally Trace. I was very territorial of my people and wanting my kingdom to remain neutral. This is why I am not the queen and my sister is, because she knows how to handle these types of royal duties. Where as I am more of a warrior at heart and very prideful at times." Said Princess Blade making Trace speechless at hearing her even apologize.
"Princess Blade, I have no hard feelings toward you. I can understand that your kingdom is important to you and you only want the best for your people. I hope we may put the past behind us and move forward to a bright future." Trace said and bowed to the princess in respect.
Princess Blade bowed back and smiled as she made eye contact with the young eevee who seemed mature for his age.
"Trace, if you ever decide you want to evolve into a leafeon, I would be happy to have you as a leafeon." Said the princess who stood up and took her leave followed by the maidens.
Jayce and Coral smiled at each other seeing that both royal members were now wanting to become apart of the alliance. Both of them decided to go and enjoy themselves at the dance while Trace went straight to the food table and began eating his fill.
The night went on with several members starting to leave, and Gabriel was given a the honor of sitting beside the new recruits to the leafeon royal guards trainees. Since he had proven he was worthy by beating the princess herself the guards looked at him with high regard. His parents hugged their son knowing that soon he would be here all on his own in a new land.
Trace began to grow tired and went back to his room to skew the rest of the night away and prepare to leave as scheduled since his parents had another territory to visit before heading home, the Slyveon territory. Trace didn't think about the trip there when he finally made it to his room and collapsed on his bed wrapping himself in his blankets before drifting to sleep.